Torture from the Top Down
Yesterday's hearings in the Senate Armed Services Committee ...brought a new focus on....William J. Haynes II, Rumsfeld's lawyer and now a lawyer for Chevron. Two things emerge from the hearing. First, that Haynes was effectively a stationmaster when it came to introducing torture techniques in the "war on terror," circumventing opposition from career military and pushing through a policy of brutality and cruelty, by stealth when necessary. And second, ... Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington
